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Could we live longer with transfusions of ‘young blood’? It’s worked on mice
Old mice live longer thanks to young blood: Duke University scientists found that their procedure slows down ageing at the ...
Viewpoint: ‘Britain must address the madness of its organic-obsessed, science-denying agricultural system’
When the Ethiopian famine finally ended in 1985, with a million people dead, nobody expected it to be the last ...
With war raging in the Ukraine, UK farmers reconsider GM crops to meet growing yield and sustainability demands
[A]s the world grapples with the impacts of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, “it has actually become pretty frightening times for ...
Biosecurity threats from engineered pathogens is increasing. How vulnerable are we — and what can be done?
A report on pandemic prevention, co-authored by chemical weapons expert Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, highlights the threat posed by synthetic biology ...
With a prospective vaccine in the pipeline, hope grows that an effective treatment for Alzheimer’s could become reality
A vaccine against Alzheimer’s disease could be on the horizon after scientists carried out successful trials in animals. Researchers from ...
From ‘anti-cancer’ bread to vitamin-infused veggies, health-boosting gene-edited foods are on the way
While the UK is still very much in the experimental stage of creating gene-edited foods, elsewhere in the world they ...
Viewpoint: England’s ‘half-hearted’ support for gene editing is stifling innovation
The [UK] Government’s half-hearted support for the process is denying us a huge chance to progress. The Government wants to ...
Catastrophic claims of an ‘insect armageddon’ misrepresent the science
“The insect apocalypse is here,” said the New York Times in 2018. “Plummeting insect numbers ‘threaten collapse of nature’,” said ...
‘Genetic pain’: Prince Harry’s comments stir controversial debate over whether we can inherit our parents’ traumas
The Duke of Sussex said he had left the UK because he wanted to “break that cycle” of “genetic pain” ...
Home cure for COVID? Pfizer testing a pill that offers promise
At two anonymous Pfizer buildings, one in the U.S. and one in Belgium, a remarkable experiment is under way. Up ...
There are 6 different varieties of coronavirus, each with varying symptoms and severities
Analysis of thousands of cases by artificial intelligence software has revealed different "clusters" of symptoms and ranked them in order ...
COVID-19 coronavirus could ‘die out’ on its own without a vaccine, health expert suggests
Prof Matteo Bassetti, head of the infectious diseases clinic at the Policlinico San Martino hospital in Italy, told The Telegraph ...
UK biotech firm poised to test disease-resistant CRISPR bananas and coffee in South America
Norwich food-tech firm Tropic Biosciences is set to push the development of its gene-edited bananas and coffee into field trials ...
Europe streamlined approval process to weeks to fight COVID-19 pandemic. Why does it take more than a decade to get a GMO safety review?
At the start of the pandemic, China built a hospital in double-quick time and we all thought, “that’s why they ...
Can CRISPR gene editing save the Cavendish banana from extinction?
When it comes to tropical fruits, Norwich [UK] probably isn’t the first place that springs to mind. But here ...
Is frozen 18,000-year-old puppy missing link between wolves and dogs?
An 18,000-year-old puppy unearthed in Siberia could prove to be the missing link between dogs and wolves, scientists believe. The puppy ...
Viewpoint: Facing climate change, global hunger crisis, we should fix our ‘faulty food system’
Fixing the world’s “faulty food system” is increasingly being recognized as one of the key ways to fight climate change ...
Brexit could lead Britain to ‘ditching EU’s mindless precaution and innovation-crushing rules on GMO crops’
Britain was once the world leader in biotechnology for agriculture, but that all changed 20 years ago when the environmental ...
Tumor ‘black box’ could pinpoint the cause of each patient’s cancer, researchers say
The cause of cancer is written into the DNA of tumours, scientists have discovered, in a breakthrough which could finally ...
Why a happy marriage might be influenced by genetics
The secret to a happy marriage lies in the genes, scientists have discovered, as new research finds a predisposition not to be ...
US ambassador urges British public to reject protectionist ‘smears’ against American agriculture
[The first week of March] the United States published our objectives for a future trade deal with the UK. We are ...
Why did Holocaust survivors live longer than other Jews?
The horrors of the Holocaust were once thought to have inflicted a deadly legacy on the health of survivors. … But ...
Could controversial gene-editing scientist He Jiankui face the death penalty in China?
The Chinese scientist who created the world’s first genetically edited babies is living under armed guard and could face the ...
UK approves first gene-edited crop trial in Europe––for omega-3 oil boosting camelina
Gene-edited super-crops are to be sown in Britain in a European-first after scientists exploited a legal loophole. The Government has quietly ...
GMO bans leave Europe, Africa vulnerable to fall army worm invasion
A crop-destroying caterpillar that has devastated agriculture in Africa is poised to spread into southern Europe for the first time and ...
Most UK millennials unconcerned about eating GMO foods, poll finds
The advent of genetically modified crops caused a scandal in the 1990s. But the younger generation is largely relaxed about ...
‘Anti-vaxxers’ are starting to focus on pets—even though they can’t get autism
Dogs cannot get ‘autism’, the British Veterinary Association has warned, after the ‘anti-vaccine’ movement spread to pets. 'Anti-vaxxers' believe that ...
First GMO crop in UK? Anti-biotech activists protest Rothamsted Research’s camelina field trials
Crops which have been genetically modified so they produce industrial products could be grown in Britain for the first time ...